Subject: Re: Personalizing your FINGER listing.

From: Eric Tse <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 20:36:16 GMT

On Fri, 24 Jan 1997, The Turbaned Leprechaun wrote:

> Does anybody know how to change the "In real life:" entry in the 
> following finger listing?

  [ snipped ]

> A friend who's done it for himself says that he used a four-letter 
> command which begins with 'c'.

  Perhaps he meant "chfn". Just type this command at the UNIX prompt and
you'll be asked for various "finger" information.

  Hope this helps.

Eric Tse
[email-masked]
http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~jyetse/

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From: [email-masked] (Sven Guckes)
Date: 25 Jan 1997 17:55:16 GMT

[email-masked] (The Turbaned Leprechaun):
> Does anybody know how to change the "In real life:" entry in the finger
> listing?  A friend who's done it for himself says that he used a four-letter

Should be "chfn" ("change finger").  It may be necessary to use ypchfn, though.

Hint:  If you are looking for a command then use "apropos" to find it:

	$apropos finger
	cfingerd, in.cfingerd (8)   - GNU finger client daemon
	gfinger (1)             - Local GNU finger system
	gfingerd (8)            - GNU finger server daemon
	hostconfig (5)          - GNU finger host configuration file
	ttylocs (5)             - GNU finger tty and host locations database
	finger (1)              - display information about users
	fingerd, in.fingerd (8C)    - remote user information server

Of course this works only if "apropos" and a whatis database is installed etc
Anyway, my point is - use the available commands and ask locally before posting!

Sven